For starters, there's a surplus of rhymes in "Antigonish." This is evident at the end of lines 3 and 4 in the second stanza, the two words "hall" and "all" rhyme. Also, there are multiple rhymes in the poem and most, if not all, are end-sound rhymes. The author of “Antigonish” used simpler poetic devices to set the mood and enhance the experience of reading the poem. When the poem is compared to "The Raven", the vocabulary of "Antigonish" is much simpler and, overall, easier to understand. Repetition is used in both poems to emphasize certain parts of the poem. For example. in "Antigonish", the phrase "He was gone today" was repeated twice. This sentence succeeded the one in which the speaker claimed to see a man who was not there. Likewise. in “The Crow,” repetition is often used to get the reader to understand the speaker’s emotions. To illustrate, the phrase about the raven being a prophet and being an evil thing was repeated twice, just to emphasize the speaker's point. The poem is enriched with the use of repetition in both cases. In “Antigonish,” saying that the speaker “met a man who was not there,” and then immediately stating, “He was no longer there today,” makes readers think about what the author is talking about . Readers must analyze the author's words to understand what is happening. In “The Crow,” repetition is used to help readers understand the speaker's point of view. Unlike "The Raven", "Antigonish" is less complex and does not include any allusions. “The Raven” alludes to the “Plutonian shore of Night,” which further helps the reader understand the poem. An illusion can add an extra dimension to a poem that you may not have thought of. On the contrary, there is nothing the reader needs to know before fully doing so